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persistent BackTrack 4

In a nutshell, persistent BackTrack 4 (BT4) will work if using a casper-rw named partition or a casper-rw named loop file.

However, I am not able to make the loop file option work. Any one can help?

Refs:

steps that I followed to create the persistent loop file:
Linux Tips: Create a larger casper-rw loop file for your live usb from Linux
blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/11/create-larger-casper-rw-loop-file-for.html

*EDIT*: PS, I'm experienced Debian user, and not too sure how the versioning works in Ubuntu. I mean, since BT4 is based on a old version of Ubuntu, how current is casper? Is there any online man page for the version of specific casper that BT4 uese?

This gave me an 800Mb file that I placed at the root of a FAT32 partition. I did put it in a different partition then the casper directory, but I don't think that that makes a difference. I wanted it in a separate partition that i could manipulate while booted in BT4 non-persistent or Windows. This has worked fine and is detected at boot.